How to Change Your Future

You can make your future greater than your past. Here's how. Tune into this recorded discussion on 11/19/2025 from Living Radiance with LaCole "Purlz" Purley!Notes from this session:Psalm 23:4From the movie After Earth, Will Smith’s character said, “Fear is not real. It only exists in our imagination of the future.”Book: “The Laws of Lifetime Growth” by Dan Sullivan & Catherine NomuraMost growth happens as a result from many small steps.The key is to keep taking themAlways keep your future bigger than your pastNo matter the circumstancesA bigger future is not about how much time you have left; it’s about what you do with that timePsalm 82:5Use what you’ve learned as a foundation for something biggerBigger questionsBigger contributionsBigger achievementsBigger learningKeep growing until the very last days of your lifeWhere do I start?Ask yourself a future-focused questionWhat can you do now that’ll make you feel happy three years from now when you look back on today?Helps you establish a relationship with your own bigger futureSet meaningful goalsTake a long view (10-25 years from now)You don’t get to choose all the experiences you have, but you do get to choose what to do with themCommon choices are:Use them as excusesWear them as badges of honorTurn them into emotional triggersGo on a good rantHave a good cryBury them like skeletons (although they resurface later)Or you can use them as raw material to learn fromHarness the emotional energy behind them to drive you to make good use of their lessonsChoose to get better or get bitterRomans 1:5-8Look at each life experience as a lesson for the foundation to provide better experiences in the futureTransform your experience:What worked in that situation? What could you have done better?What can you do to make a better experience next time?Change the conversationListen to yourself talking and your self-talkProverbs 13:2Are you speaking to be heard or to listen and learn?Are you trying to move the conversation forward or just prove a point?Proverbs 14:1Do you talk about what happened to you or about what you learned from what happened to you?Is your experience the starting point or the ending point of the conversation?Which stories are you sharing repeatedly?Follow these three words for yourself, for others and for GodCommitmentForgivenessSurrenderLiving Radiance is a movement to encourage the masses to live a holistic life with The Five Pillars of Health: spiritual, financial, mental/emotional, physical, and social for anyone of all ages to use in their every day life!You can always improve yourself and your situation. Walk in faith and move in purpose with love.Be sure to like, comment, subscribe, and share for more content!